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=====Other influences =====
=====Other influences =====
A second stream of thought growing in significance was the liberalism of [[John Locke]], including his theory of the "[[social contract]]". This had a great influence on the revolution as it implied the inborn [[right to revolution|right of the people to overthrow their leaders]] should those leaders betray the agreements implicit in the sovereign-follower relationship. Historians find little trace of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s influence in America.<ref>Nathan Schachner concluded, "Rousseau, whose romantic and egalitarian tenets had practically no influence on the course of Jefferson's, or indeed any American, thought." ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biography.'' (1957). p. 47. Actually, Rousseau had an influence on [[Noah Webster]] (in terms of educating children) and some of the Transcendentalists like [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]].</ref> In terms of writing state and national constitutions, the Americans used [[Montesquieu]]'s analysis of the ideally "balanced" British Constitution. But first and last came a commitment to republicanism, as shown by many historians such as [[Bernard Bailyn]] and Gordon S. Wood.
A second stream of thought growing in significance was the liberalism of [[John Locke]], including his theory of the "[[social contract]]". This had a great influence on the revolution as it implied the inborn right of the people to overthrow their leaders should those leaders betray the agreements implicit in the sovereign-follower relationship. Historians find little trace of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]]'s influence in America.<ref>Nathan Schachner concluded, "Rousseau, whose romantic and egalitarian tenets had practically no influence on the course of Jefferson's, or indeed any American, thought." ''Thomas Jefferson: A Biography.'' (1957). p. 47. Actually, Rousseau had an influence on [[Noah Webster]] (in terms of educating children) and some of the Transcendentalists like [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]].</ref> In terms of writing state and national constitutions, the Americans used [[Montesquieu]]'s analysis of the ideally "balanced" British Constitution. But first and last came a commitment to republicanism, as shown by many historians such as [[Bernard Bailyn]] and Gordon S. Wood.
====Historiography====
====Historiography====